We are so into the Holiday season that we are taking a deserved break until January 5th. We'll be back with some cool new stuff coming in the January 7th newsletter. If you don't get a quick respond from our Support team we asure you, they just had too much Eggnog.

Microsoft has extended the deadline for smaller Pc builders and resellers to obtain licenses for the discontinued operating system from January 31, 2009 to May 30, 2009.

YouTube announced that it has launched a new page to corral all the HD videos uploaded to the site. The new HD player now launches in a widescreen window that takes up the majority of the browser window.

Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux follows the AIR 1.5 release for Windows and Mac which came out in November. In bringing AIR to Linux, Adobe is giving developers another platform that their applications will run on while expanding application availability for Linux desktop users.

DNzone team is so into the Holiday season that is taking a deserved break until January 5th. If you don't get a quick respond from our Support team we asure you, they just had too much Eggnog.

Live Essentials is a combination of software and services aimed primarily at consumers. There is a lot more downloaded to a user’s PC than simply the core set of services like Windows Live Messenger, Live Writer, Live Mail, Live Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Toolbar and Family Safety.

Soundcloud released an open-source itunes-clone built in jQuery, complete with smart playlists, drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts, load-as-you-scroll playlist, playlist sharing and waveform display of tracks.

Microsoft has released its first application for Apple's iPhone even before making it available on it's own mobile platform. Seadragon Mobile is a free image-browsing application that allows users to quickly "deep zoom" images while online and is intended to demonstrate what is possible with a mobile platform.

Several Apple patent filings published Apple's new possible multidimensional interface for Mac OS X. The most extensive one, titled "Multidimensional Desktop" was submitted to the U.S Patent and Trademark Office back in June last year. The interface could be the possible one in the future versions of Mac OS X.

The war over desktop operating systems has raged, with each side proclaiming the unrivaled superiority of its chosen OS and the vile loathsomeness of all others. Computer world asked four experts to lay out their best arguments in support of their desktop operating systems of choice.

It has been a year of transition for Microsoft. Microsoft introduced its cloud operating system Azure, and released online versions of Exchange and SharePoint, two of its most popular infrastructure servers. In addition, the company revealed it was developing for the first time Web-based online versions of popular Office applications. It's all a setup for what will define Microsoft's 2009.

During this tutorial you'll discover how to implement a commonly seen feature on many websites: How to indicate to the user how strong or weak the password they are typing is by using both a text display and a graphical bar display.

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In this tutorial we will explore how to perform a commonly requested feature where a please wait message is displayed to the user during longer transactions or requests.

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The newly released Firefox 3.1 beta 2 and Chrome 0.4.154.33 compete into JavaScript performance testing. Firefox remains the leader on the SunSpider test, with a score of 2.110, chrome edged very close with 2.140. A lower score is better, because of some variation in results, the nubers are an avarage of several runs.

Amethyst Personal Edition (PE) is an editing and project management environment for developing Adobe Flex and AIR applications using Visual Studio. In the first quarter of 2009 a Professional Edition release including extended features is intended.

The internet telephone company Truphone released a free application that helps mp3 player transforms into a mobile phone. The application allows users of a Wi-Fi connection to make and receive phone calls via VoIP with other iPod Touch owners, users of the Google Talk's messaging service, and customers of Truphone's internet telephone service.

The Pulitzer Prize Board announced that it will consider entries from online-only publications in addition to print outlets for the 14 journalism categories that once were prestigious but now few care about.

The alpha of Opera 10 was the first browser to fully comply with the Acid3 test. The latest version of the desktop browser scored 100 out of 100 on the Acid3 test, which was created to assess whether browsers comply with a range of web standards around features such as rendering and Javascript.

On Monday Mozilla released the second beta of Firefox 3.1 that comes with lots of changes. The new version features support for video and audio built into Web pages, a built-in service for telling Web sites a user's location, private browsing , Web workerand the TraceMonkey engine for running Javascript programs.

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